topic Re: Coping elements from stories. in Modeling

Coping elements from stories.

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 07:56:37 GMT

I found very useful the tool for coping elements from one story to another, but I wonder if can you copy only selected elements not all of any type. It is very annoying to copy paste, so if it would be possible to make this with that tool it would be great.

Re: Coping elements from stories.

Barry Kelly — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:33:33 GMT

I am not sure I understand what tool you are talking about?

You can select whatever you want, copy and paste into another storey.
So if you only want 2 walls then you just select those 2 wall - you don't have to select all of them.

They don't even have to be the same type of element.
So you could have 2 walls, 3 slabs, and an object - select and copy them, change storey and paste.
They will all retain their original heights relative to the storey.

Barry.

Re: Coping elements from stories.

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 09:57:36 GMT

Barry wrote:
I am not sure I understand what tool you are talking about?

You can select whatever you want, copy and paste into another storey.
So if you only want 2 walls then you just select those 2 wall - you don't have to select all of them.

They don't even have to be the same type of element.
So you could have 2 walls, 3 slabs, and an object - select and copy them, change storey and paste.
They will all retain their original heights relative to the storey.

Barry.

I mean using edit elements by stories, its very helpful, you can do it in the 3d window and control their effect. If you use copy and paste you have to switch to difference windows were are the difference leves.

Re: Coping elements from stories.

Barry Kelly — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 01:05:00 GMT

darwinland wrote:
I mean using edit elements by stories, its very helpful, you can do it in the 3d window and control their effect.

I can't say I have ever used this.
I guess it is great if you want to copy/paste all of one (or more) element types but as you say you can not choose specific elements only.

I just select what I want in plan, copy, move to another storey and paste.

Barry.

Re: Coping elements from stories.

Link — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 03:26:03 GMT

Yes I believe this was introduced so that we could copy elements as we created stories. Not really a common workflow!

Cheers,
Link.